Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009)

A mockbuster is a film that is clearly a ripoff of another film. I really do wonder why the creators don't just sue the people who ripped them off. There have been much more frivolous lawsuits. "The Amazing World Of Gumball" did an hilarious parody of "Miracle Star". Anyway, this movie really does make the Transformers films look good. At least those had fairly good special effects.The special effects are as horrible as expected, especially with how they show the robots killing people with lasers. It's just these blue streams that leave holes in their heads. I remember near the end how they say that there are other survivors, but the budget is obviously too low to hire enough people to show them. At one point, someone says that the robots have destroyed most of the world and we just cut to a regular looking sky. Some destruction. The acting is truly horrible.I barely remember the first one, but this is actually a prequel. If there's such a massive invasion, why do we only see two or three robots at one time? Because the budget couldn't afford to put more in! This has so little effort put into it, it seems like it's doubtful to even call it a movie at all. It's mostly just people walking around. It doesn't even have two minutes of good action scenes like the Nostalgia Critic foresaw in "The Last Knight". 1/2*

I was going to give this movie 8/10, putting it on par with ZOMBIE OUTBREAK, BUGS BUGS BUGS OH NO, and THE English PATIENT - all strong entrants in their respective genres.This would have been because Bruce Box-lightener is a personal hero of mine. As a collector of white and/or empty boxes, a man who spends his time making boxes lighter (in either sense of the word!) is really making my day. Every single day.I owe Bruce so much.However, during this film his character makes an uncharacteristically stupid decision to kill himself in order to destroy and already incapacitated Transmorpher. This is unbelievable. YES, Bruce attempted suicide in Babylon 5, but ALSO this was for a good reason AND he was brought back to life. Was it so much to ask for him to be brought back to life in this movie?! I can only assume they stopped being able to pay him his monies, which would be substantially large amounts of monies, as he is very talented.I cannot believe a man like this exist: both lightening boxes and also acting so well.I am so sad about this movie I had a little funeral for Bruce. I put a very small and very light box in a toy helicopter and it was sad.This movie breaks your heart. Stay away unless you are an emo and like to feel bad.

I would not classify this movie as a ripoff. I would say it is more of the K-Mart version of Transformers. Obviously a low budget film. I would have to say porn with a plot, minus the nudity, added to an early episode of power rangers. Throw in a D- list cast (actually I have no clue who any of them are) and you have your self one heck of a stupid movie. I have seen better special effects done in a home movie. This zany cheese ball plot will have you wondering why you even bothered wasting your time. Hopefully you did not rent or buy this movie because you would be wasting your money too. Don't bother looking any further this movie sucks!

I didn't think it would be possible, but this movie is actually worse than Transformers 2! This is not a parody of the Transformers movies or other action movies as the title may lead you to believe. It's actually (as far as I can tell) a serious attempt at creating an action/adventure in which humans come under attack by transforming robotic creatures and must fight back! Basically they took many of the essential elements that make up the Transformers franchise and repackaged them into their own movie. This has the benefit of removing Michael Bay from the equation, but is done at the expense of hiring convincing actors and high budget special effects. Unfortunately, the script is just as poorly written as that for Transformers 2! Now there are some out there who actually enjoy low-budget B-movies with cheesy special effects and poor acting. Sadly, the special effects were actually done on a high enough level where despite being slightly cheesy they're actually not that disappointing. Also, despite some of the acting being poor it's not bad enough to be entertaining for that reason and although the story is full of holes they're just not presented in a way where it might be easy for you to amuse yourself with them.Overall a bad movie, but even if you're in the mood for a "bad" movie I suspect you'll still be disappointed by Transmorphers Fall of Man!